Showing posts with label literature. Show all posts
Showing posts with label literature. Show all posts

Thursday, April 12, 2007

So it goes


Kurt Vonnegut Jr., author of Slaughterhouse-Five, Breakfast of Champions, and Cat's Cradle died Wednesday from complications related to a recent head injury he sustained in a fall. He was 84.
Vonnegut was a student, a soldier, a newspaper reporter, a Saab salesman, a funny pessimist, and an angry comic. His last book A Man Without a Country was published in 2005 and is filled with the kind of off-the-cuff shit that connects him more solidly to our world of a zillion counter cultures than anyone before, and certainly anyone after.
And so it goes.

PBS audio interview

Monday, January 15, 2007

Insayn!

Gadsby popped up in a game of trivial pursuit the other day. I never knew.

A Story of Over 50,000 Words Without Using the Letter “E”